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and the moſt virtuous Citizens of antiquity, ſo intimately acquainted with all the niceties and difficulties of purſuing this little animal, and deſcribing them with a preciſion that would not diſgrace the oldeſt Sportſman of Great Britain, who never had any other idea interfere to perplex his reſearches.
As I think no tranſlation of Xenophon's Treatiſe on Hunting has appeared in our language, the Reader may not be diſpleaſed to ſee that part of it which bears an immediate relation to the ſubject of theſe Eſſays. I ſhall, therefore, lay before him a Deſcription of the Greek manner of Hare-hunting[1] extracted from that Writer, which I am the more induced to, as it will confute the aſſertion of Mr. Somerville, in
- ↑ Some quotations from Xenophon's Cynegeticos, the Reader will find in the notes on the ſubſequent Eſſays.
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